Actor Grigory Khmara and the Russian Hollywood of Paris in a film on the Kultura channel

In the 1920s the husband of the Danish-born actress Asta Nielsen, then enormously famous, in Russia at any rate, wrote to Alexandr Kamenka, producer at Paris's largest Russian film studio, Albatros, incidentally as…

"My name is Grigory Mikhailovich Khmara... My wife is Asta Nielsen... I shall permit myself to make a proposal... The role of the father in this novella... Only because I shall accompany my wife in any case... I played Raskolnikov and Christ."

There is a good film on Kultura about the very Russian Hollywood of Paris. I recommend watching it.

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Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina

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A literacy circle for housewives in a 1931 photograph from the photo-essay "24 Hours in the Life of the Filippov Family"

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Mass adult baptism at an Orthodox mission in Hendersonville, North Carolina

A literacy circle for housewives in a 1931 photograph from the photo-essay "24 Hours in the Life of the Filippov Family"

The Voronezh meme recurs in Trump's remarks on Iran and Los Angeles

Pope Leo XIV on the courage to do good, to forgive and to enter into dialogue